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Trauma and life stories : international perspectives / edited by Kim Lacy Rogers, Selma Leydesdorff, and Graham Dawson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers Leydesdorff Daws Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 2.
- Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychic trauma--Cross-cultural studies.
- Psychic trauma.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Cross-cultural studies.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Reminiscing--Therapeutic use--Cross-cultural studies.
- Reminiscing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations and tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Trauma and life stories SELMA LEYDESDORFF, GRAHAM DAWSON, NATASHA BURCHARDT AND T. G. ASHPLANT; Case studies; Trauma signals in life stories GADI BENEZER; Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war widows' forbidden memories JUDITH ZUR; Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories from Windermere to the Cape Flats SEAN FIELD; Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: a montage ofdifferent but similar stories in two countries JAN COETZEE AND OTAKAR HULEC
- The unending war: social myth, individual memory and the Malvinas FEDERICO LORENZLynching stories: family and community memory in the Mississippi Delta KIM LACY ROGERS; Containing violence: poisoning and guerilla/civilian resistance in memories of Zimbabwe's liberation war JOANN MCGREGOR; Naming and claiming: the integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors' stories of sexual abuse SUSAN ROSE; Trauma, memory, politics: the Irish Troubles GRAHAM DAWSON; Debates and reviews; Reality or nothing! False and repressed memories and autobiography J. P. ROOS
- Human disaster, social trauma and community memory ARTHUR HANSENTrauma and the long-term life story PAUL THOMPSON; Review article: Paul Antze and Michael Lambek (eds), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory TINA PAPOULIAS; Review article: Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture SUSANNAH RADSTONE; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-62373-9
- 1-134-62374-7
- 1-280-33027-9
- 9786610330270
- 0-203-25513-5
- 0-203-06472-0
- 9780203064726
- OCLC:
- 560069235
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